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Description:
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1975, is located along the flood-plain of the Ouachita and Saline Rivers in southeast Arkansas. The refuge is dissected by an intricate system of creeks, sloughs, button-bush swamps, and lakes throughout a vast bottomland hardwood forest that gradually rises to an upland pine and hardwood forest community. Felsenthal Refuge is home for thousands of migrant and resident waterfowl, marsh and water birds, neotropical migrants, resident wildlife and has the highest density of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers in the state. The refuge contains some of the region's richest cultural resources with more than 200 known archeological (Native American) sites. Felsenthal Refuge is home to the worldÂ’s largest green-tree reservoir (an area of carefully timed forest flooding). The refuge annually floods about 36,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forests to provide habitat for waterfowl and other wetland-dependent species. Wildlife-oriented public use has averaged nearly 300,000 visits annually. Directions:
The visitor center/office is on U. S. Highway 82 approximately 5 miles west of Crossett, Arkansas.
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